Ok im sure lots of people have run into this. Instead of people giving good advice, people make predictions or assume something will work this way. Its hard to ask a random person because 9/10 the person you could be talking to is wearing full Aurore set. But, as I have learned over my 10 years of having an active ffxi account... gear doesn't make the job. I found that the ones who make this choices are usually the people who don't even have the job leveled.

So doing this research for a friend Ive heard people say this...

That its good to stack Dex or critical hit gear or both to help with spike dmg and str anywear else. SO with that setup, you'd have better chances of doing more dmg even though the modifier is STR.

Didn't want to make a new thread; what're the accepted atma sets for a standard Verethragna monk, full af3+2, black belt? I assume there'd be one for all-out DD and one with GH for counter against bosses you want to mitigate a bit more damage, but I don't know.

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Didn't want to make a new thread; what're the accepted atma sets for a standard Verethragna monk, full af3+2, black belt? I assume there'd be one for all-out DD and one with GH for counter against bosses you want to mitigate a bit more damage, but I don't know.

I always use GH, personally. Next best crit atma after Razed Ruins, and those two bring the crit rate around the point where you don't need to devote a 3rd atma to it. Everything else on the atma is gravy (but yet actually useful too)